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Microsoft Outlook Hope Dallas From: Brenda Broughton <brenda.broughton@ Sent: March 22, 2016 12:49 PM To: Prime Minister/Premier Ministre; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Mayor Greg Moore; Mayor Gregor Robertson; '[email protected]'; Council; [email protected]; [email protected]; Mayor Council; pheintzman@squamish. ca; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Islands Trust; [email protected]; [email protected]; My Sea to Sky; Future of Howe Sound; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; David Suzuki; Squamish Chief News; Vaughn Palmer; Rafe Mair; [email protected]; Squamish First Nation; Pembina Institute; North Shore News; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Please Say No to Woodfibre LNG Supertanker Risk, Fisheries Risk and Urban Terrorist Risk Attachments: Howe Sound Signed Principles for Cooperation 0814[8] copy.pdf; LNG Issues from March 22nd, 2016 meeting.pdf Attention: The Right Honourable Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change The Honourable Hunter Tootoo, Minister of Fisheries The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport The Honourable Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence The Honourable Stephane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs The Honourable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Public Safety Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ministers, This matter is of significant importance to the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Environment, the Minister of Fisheries, the Minister of Transport the Minister of Defence, the Minister of Foreign Affairs with regard to COP21 and the Minister of Public Safety, therefore I request serious review of the letter that follows by each of the Ministers. The announcement on Friday, March 18th, 2016 by The Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change providing the environmental go forward to Woodfibre LNG, is of serious concern. Also, the Conditions that are provided by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, appear to lack specific and measurable criteria thus possibly compromising their application and enforcement. http://ceaa.gc.ca/050/document‐eng.cfm?document=109540 . 1. Harm to herring spawn; the fact that Woodfibre will represent 7% of BC’s GHG emissions targets in 2050; and that the cooling intake system, already banned in California and elsewhere, 17,000 cubic metres per hour of warmed water will warm the waters of Howe Sound with output by the herring spawn; are points outlined in the article link below. This information has been well documented and submitted to both the BCEAO and CEAA process over the last two years. The concern is that the depth of consideration that staff may be providing may have been junior and/or perhaps involving with the proponent. The mapping in the article attached and photos of the herring spawn are excellent in illuminating the real and serious concerns. Please click on the link for review. 1 http://theecoreport.com/mckenna‐made‐the‐wrong‐call‐on‐woodfibre‐lng/ 2. The potential for serious risk to our urban population from LNG Supertanker Shipping is real. Please review the Howe Sound Bathymetry Map. Please open and review the narrow channels, understanding that there is population at risk on both sides of Howe Sound. Only last week, on March 9th, in Seattle, Washington, a gas leak blew up what appears to be a city block damaging 36 businesses and injuring 9 Fire Fighters. The impact of an explosion of a 1000’ LNG Supertanker is almost unimaginable and falls to both the Ministers of Transport and Defence for review, as it creates a potential and real shipping transport and terrorist threat to an important urban centre in BC. Seattle gas explosion March 9th, with 9 Firefighters injured The threat of wind/weather events running the ship aground is real. The SIGTTO (International Supertanker Shipping Standards) states that when siting an LNG plant one must always think worst case scenario and never choose to site a plant in a narrow waterway with population centres along the shoreline and busy commercial and recreational marine traffic. Howe Sound is the southern most fjord in North America. The shipping route leads through narrow channels past inhabited islands and the City of Vancouver, a major port and population centre. The Sandia National Labs hazard zones placed on the Howe Sound map have been confirmed by Sandia as accurate and therefore placing West Vancouver, Bowen Island and Lions Bay at serious risk. This proposed shipping lane would not be allowed in the United States. We must not allow unacceptable safety standards here. 3. Meeting our COP21 targets begins today and everyday with pragmatical decisions, that represent ‘Real Change’ by really changing direction. 4. The people of Howe Sound have worked for decades on the environmental clean‐up of Howe Sound, giving birth to the amazingly healthy Howe Sound with dolphins, harbour seals, whales, and now salmon. The herring spawn is a significant attractant. Clean up accomplishments include : A) Clean up of the Britannia Mine Jane Basin with Federal funding. This area was the largest point source of pollution in North America, creating a ‘dead sea’ that is now coming to life; B) Prevention of bleach dumping at Port Mellon, now called Howe Sound Pulp and Paper and overhaul technological change leading to pollution reduction~removal of odour; C) Stream Keepers wrapping the creosote pilings so that herring could spawn again; D) Following decades of complete loss of salmon and closure of the Vancouver Fishing Derby in Howe Sound about circa the 1970’s, there is salmon again in Howe Sound including about 300,000 pink salmon being caught in circa 2013/2014. E) Closure of Woodfibre Pulp and Paper, has resulted in a return to health of the ecosystem and herring spawn in Howe Sound at Woodfibre. F) Howe Sound Divers, obtained Underwater Park status in Helkett Bay for historically old Glass Sea Sponges, and now find Glass Sea Sponges in many locations throughout Howe Sound. G) The Howe Sound Community Forum of Elected Officials and the Squamish First Nation, led to the signing of the Priniciples For Cooperation you may wish to Review, signed in 2002 and revised and signed in 2014. Please see attachment ‘Howe Sound Signed Principles for Cooperation’, a guiding document for Howe Sound’s planning. 5. Howe Sound is precious…it is not a port or harbour, but a sanctuary that attracts the World. If you have not been along the Sea to Sky Corridor Highway [the number 1 Scenic Highway in the World], I implore you to do so. 2 It is profoundly wrong to provide the go ahead for Woodfibre LNG. My hope is that the Minister of Transportation, the Minister of Fisheries and the Minister of Defence, will provide the appropriate review of this project and in doing so will understand that it must Not proceed. LNG is a class A Hazard industry proposed for the wrong location. It is irresponsible to process, store and transport such highly hazardous materials so close to a highly inhabited area. I urge you to reconsider and responsibly Say NO to Woodfibre LNG as this project is both dangerous and destructive to Howe Sound water ecosystem and surrounding population. Of the 1,300 CEAA Comments that include, 100 Speakers at the Public Meetings, plus a Petition of Opposition with 8,600 signatures, resulting in about 10,000 Feedback responses received, the comments are overwhelming with 99% OPPOSED to Woodfibre LNG [9,800 Opposed responses], and 1% in Support [90 Support responses] . The CEAA noted that the Prime Minister’s comment that, " Governments grant permits, communities grant permission”. The Howe Sound community overwhelmingly did not grant permission. Last evening, I have reviewed each of the CEAA individual submissions listed on the CEAA website, about 11 responses were requests for time extension, funding or additions to the EA process. The comments of opposition were substantive, science based and provided significant rationale to not proceed. The people who are opposed are bright, thoughtful, research oriented, and thus knowledgeable. The apparent failure of the CEAA to report the very high percentage of Opposition to the proposed Woodfibre LNG project, would not have adequately briefed the Minister of Environment and Climate Change in an appropriately fulsome, ethical and/or accurate manner. Rather the CEAA Summary states the percentage of comments related to GHG’s [70%], almost none of the 83 comments of LNG Support mentioned GHG’s and most were 1 to a few lines in length, versus several hundred fulsome submissions of Opposition. Woodfibre presented a 20 page submission of support. Woodfibre is not the Public. The Public Comment results create statistics, that clearly highlights overwhelming Public Opposition to the Woodfibre LNG project. CEAA Summary of Analysis of GHG Emissions Comments during Public Process received Document: http://ceaa.gc.ca/050/document‐eng.cfm?document=109544 Comments Received can be reviewed at http://ceaa.gc.ca/050/documents‐eng.cfm?evaluation=80060&type=3 . We are pleased to meet with you to discuss the significance of these issues to Howe Sound, to British Columbia and to Canada.
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